Book review: The Smartest Kids in the World
Ripley, A. (2013) The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way New York/London/Toronto/Sydney/New Delhi: Simon and Schuster
OECD (2013) PISA...
Productivity and online learning redux
Summarizing the previous posts
In previous posts (see end of this post), I tried to identify a range of areas where online learning might enable...
Productivity and online learning: an summary of the main concepts
This is the first of two final posts in the series on whether online learning can increase educational ‘productivity.’ In this post I discuss...
Tom Carey’s reflections on the HEQCO report on online learning and productivity: 2 –...
Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the...
Book review by Sir John Daniel: Higher Education in the Digital Age
Bowen, W. (2013) Higher Education in the Digital Age Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press $26.95
As part of a series of posts on technology and...
Technology, teaching and productivity: the need for theory
The need for greater productivity in higher education teaching
I'm going to make a few posts on this topic, prompted by pressure from politicians in...
Government cuts affect U.S. universities’ ‘world reputation’
Huff Post College (2013) Most Prestigious Universities: Times Higher Education's 2013 World Reputation Rankings, March 5
The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings employs an...
What’s going on at Athabasca University?
Four senior administrators had their positions apparently terminated last week at Athabasca University (AU), a fully distance university in the province of Alberta.
These four...
Measuring the growth of online learning: the Babson College 2012 survey
Allen, I.E. and Seaman, J. (2013) Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States Wellesley MA: Babson College/Quahog Research Group
Based...
Full report on the Open University of Catalonia now available
Contact North (2012) The Open University of Catalonia: Fully Online Multi-lingual Innovation-focused Accredited Sudbury ON: Contact North
In an earlier post I wrote about current research...